For starter animes i suggest the first 2 of comment #16 and Code Geass and Sword Art Online.
When/if you start to like anime is when you should watch the ones that give feels, in my opinion. If you choose to watch feel anime watch angel beats first then clannad. tip on clannad though the first 38 episodes are in my opinion boring as hell but the rest is AMAZING.

before you do something silly...
watch one of the following
1. soul eater (mostly humor and slight feels now and then)
2. full metal alchemist: brotherhood (god dammit so many feels and lulz here, also epic)
3. angel beats (if you want heavy feels at the end)
4. if you want to bust a nut i would suggest "kiss x sis"
i guessed from your comment youve seen just one really ****** anime and it put you off the whole thing... soo... yeah...

oh and btw, if you want to go full kawaii desu J-fag i would suggest "K-ON" or "Lucky Star"

say no more, i'd probably watch it any way, Just finished Sword Art Online, and the feels OH MY GOD. i mean on the third ******* episode i was in a fetal position for an hour. don't get me wrong its not all soul sapping sadness, but when the show wants to see your tears it can do a damn good job of finding them. I would recommend watching it, its an incredible show but do so when alone so no one can see your soft side,

Iunno, I guess it's subjective. Personally I loved it, I've always thought the concept of being trapped in a video game where failure means death was a cool idea. I liked the story, but a lot of people complain about there being too many plot holes. I noticed a few, but it wasn't enough to bother me (Not to mention the majority of them actually make sense considering it's based on video game logic) but if you so much as bring up Sword Art Online on the anime board, they will **** fury all over you. God forbid if you like something those weeaboos don't.

I don't know what kawaii desu is. What about action though? And not stuff like high school of the dead or whatever it's called. I liked boobs as much as the next, but throwing them into a sniper battle is ridiculous.

if you want awesome action look no further than Berserk or claymore classic awesome anime that get overlooked way too often and of course gurren laggan is a must see, it's mecha (they fight in giant robots and ****) and i usually hate any and all mecha because it seems artificial but trust me when i say this is my #1 action anime only not #1 overall because clannad wins as #1 in feels so i have two #1's overall.

if you're more into action than boobs...
soul eater or Full metal is your best choice

oh and don't worry, Soul eater got some fan service on a few of the starting episodes but it doesn't interrupt or **** with the plot so its relatively ok and it dabs off later on... the plot is amazing too! same with Full Metal

i really realized the difference after watching a show called betterman. i liked it, but its ending was by western standards awful. everyone dies and your just sort of left hanging. however by eastern standards the ending was excellent: the "moral" of the story was delivered in a completely inarguable fashion. most newer animes take a more western approach to storytelling though... my point being that westerners expect a happy ending, but eastern story telling doesn't always deliver, though thats not necessarily a bad thing. -i think ive confused myself now-

Confusing is not really an issue, especially when I nerd out over a story. It just wasn't as entertaining as it could be. Slow is probably a better way to put it. There was so much he could've done with that book, I guess I haven't watched enough episodes to see him do it.